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Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Morning All! It’s my turn to share some Elisabeth Bell love over on the Digi Bells Blog today. I’m starting to make a recipe/baking book and I thought Apple Berry was the perfect image to use:

My style is bouncing all over the place at the moment I think it’s just how the mood takes me as I sit down to craft and as you can see I was in a frou frou mood when I made this one (well for me anyway!).

I liked the font on the chipboard letters but they were cork effect and didn’t match so I coloured them with a marker and doused them in glitter!!

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Morning All, it’s time for Tiddly Tuesday over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and we have a new challenge for you. Our theme this time around is Let’s Get Krafty, which is a big hurrah from me as I love to use Kraft card on my makes.

I originally made this card for our last challenge but my little triangles under the main image looked to0 much like a square (the challenge was no squares allowed!!) so I made another card knowing I could use this one for this challenge instead.

I’ve used the image Whatcha Doing? and it was a fabulous image to practice my hair colouring on!

Friday, 25 September 2015

It’s release day at Elisabeth Bell and we are really being spoiled this month! We not only have ONE new image but TWO fabulous new images.

Sweet Country Harvest was previously released as a rubber stamp by Treasured Times and Harvest Puppy who was once part of the "Change-a-Belles Collection for Belles 'n Whistles, however, he has been tweaked a little to fit the Harvest season.

For my first creation I’ve made a card using Sweet Country Harvest:

And for my second creation I’ve made a tag using Harvest Puppy:

The blog hop will will run for one week and will end on Friday 2nd October at 9:00am Arizona Time (4pm for us UK ladies).

If you have stumbled upon this post and would like to join us on the hop you will find the line up below. However if you are already hopping along your next stop will be the fabulous Valoufor some more inspiration.

Fancy winning these new digis? All you have to do is hop through and leave comments on EACH blog. Two blogs at random will be chosen, and the winners will be picked from the comments and posted to the Digi Bells Blog shortly after the end of the hop.

I use so many digi stamps now that I forget that my love of Elisabeth Bell artwork started many many moons ago with this adorable stamp Daisy that I bought from Sugar Nellie, unfortunately she is no longer available but she sure is a cutie.

Here is my card:

I’m loving the no-lines colouring technique at the moment but I’m not too happy with her eye and I coloured a bit I shouldn’t so she now has a massive neck!! I really should get in the habit of having a black lines version next to me as I colour…it would make things a little bit easier.

Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Afternoon All. Just a quick post as I’m about to do the school run. I spent a bit of time on Monday Blog Hopping, which I haven’t had the chance to do much of recently. I was inspired by these weeks challenge at Less is More where the theme is technology.

I had this little envelope on my desk that I cut out for another project but didn’t end up using and I thought it would work well for an email symbol and then I added the little wooden letters to show a Happy Birthday Message.

Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Morning All. I’m hoping for a better day today as yesterday was the kind of day I shouldn’t have bothered coming out from under the duvet. Headaches, cut fingers, downpours on the school run and little ones bumping there heads

Anyhoo, it’s time for Tiddly Tuesday over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and we have a new challenge for you. Our theme this time around is Don’t Be Square (no squares aloud at all!!). I’ve made another Christmas card for my stash using the adorable Mavis Christmas:

After a day filled with quite a few accidents I decided to go clean and simple with this one….thinking the less time I spent in the craft room the less chance there was of doing something silly or hurting myself!!

Friday, 11 September 2015

Morning all. All that keeping my fingers (and toes) crossed has paid off as I’m very lucky and honoured to be joining the Tiddly Inks Girls for another 4 month stint….whoop whoop….happy dance

Anyhoo, the point of my post is that it’s time for another Fab Friday post over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog.

I love to make cards with my Tiddlys but up until now one hasn’t made it into my journal. Well all that has changed with this fabulous image Vamp Me. I’m reading the Sookie Stackhouse books at the moment (I’m on book 10 of 13) and watching the TV series based on them (True Blood) so I thought this would be perfect for a journal page.

When I think of vampires I think of rich colours and old things, leather furniture, stuff like that so I thought this embossed background suited the image perfectly.

Monday, 7 September 2015

Afternoon all……it wasn’t quite 50 shades but I sure managed to get quite a few greys in there when I was colouring!! I have made this for the challenges over at Make It Crafty where the CAS challenge is Black and White and the Make it Colourful challenge is Shades of Black.

Morning all! Well we had a gorgeous day yesterday and today’s is looking to be pretty nice as well. My prediction about the weather improving when the children returned to school looks to be coming true!!!

As you can see, apart from colouring this cute digi up with a beach scene as a background, the only other thing I have done is mat and layer onto some teal card. That’s because I’m not sure what I’m going to turn this cutie into! He may end up in my colouring journal or I think he would like nice popped onto a calendar.

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

A nice clean and simple card from me today. I printed the digi twice, once onto Copic card and once onto water colour card. I created a wash of blue on the watercolour card to look like a snowy sky and then coloured the other image with Copics and fussy cut before fixing over the other image with foam pads.

Enjoy your day, we are off on a little day trip to Swindon where we used to live. We are going to do some shopping in the Outlet Centre and also drive by our old house as my eldest would like to see it.

About Me

I am married to Daniel and I am a full time Mum to Elliot and Emily. I have been a crafter without really knowing it since I was a little girl, but have expanded my talents from those early days of finger painting and playing with glitter. My main passion is card making using rubber stamps but will try my hand at most crafts. I was lucky enough to be named Papercraft Essentials Magazines 'Papercrafter of the Year 2012' and more recently Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazines 'Cardmaker of the Year 2017'. Plus I also design for some pretty awesome companies.